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Deep Song

by Root Strata

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Spirit Dance 04:21
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Peace Bird 04:15
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Deep Song 04:25
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Empty Sky 03:04
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Mirage 05:32
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Winter Dream 04:40
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Barokan 04:08
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Dream Weaver 03:19
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Sanctuary 05:00
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Jazz Journal Review
“Sample the poised yet flowing invocations that are Spirit Dance and The Storyteller. Deep Song is the second release from the Root Strata duo of Geoff Hearn and pianist and keyboardist Simon Robinson
Like that album, Deep Song – in equal measure reflective and penetrating, jazz-caressed and folk-limned – was produced by Robinson who has both a beautiful touch and an equisite, often entrancing sense of dynamics in a rich yet astutely tempered blend of modally sprung, diversely energising rhythmic figures and atmospheric texture.
Hearn sets aside his potent tenor and baritone saxophone to feature concert C and alto flutes, shakuhachi and Native American flutes: all are played with a poetically compelling blend of pitch-bending economy and rhythmic subtlety. Soprano sax features on the spare and deeply “breathing” meditation that is the title track and the achingly tender Dream Weaver.
Don Cherry called the work of his latter years “primal music”. Think also here of the Native American flautist R Carlos Nakai or the Honkyoku shakuhachi of the travelling Zen masters of old (hear Empty Sky, which- together with the similarly rubato Winter Dream – is some of the most soul-piercing music I’ve heard) and you’ll come closer still to the transformative blend of unforced jazz literacy and world-embracing poetics which sparks the “pure soul and joy” that is Deep Song”
Michael Tucker - Jazz Journal *****

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released November 12, 2021

Geoff Hearn - Saxophones, C Flute, Alto Flute, North American Flutes, Shakuhachi
Simon Robinson - Keyboards, Electronics, Sound Design
Produced - Geoff Hearn and Simon Robinson at Laughing Dove Studios August 2020
Cover Design and Photo - Simon Robinson

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Root Strata England, UK

Based in Sussex UK Geoff is one of Britain’s most vibrant musicians on the creative music scene and has led many bands blues, jazz, rock, world, and ‘free improvisation’.
Simon, a pianist, composer and arranger is a well respected member of the live music scene in the UK South East. He has a deep love of post bop jazz, plays regular live jazz gigs and a love of sound design and producing.
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